These are just a few quotes I found inspiring.

"Normal = ordinary, mundane, average
Why be ordinary, when you can be extraordinary?
Why be Mundane, when you can be interesting?
Why be average, when you can be excellent?
Normal is over-rated. "
-Tygg


"So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.
If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose.
If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself."
-Sun Tsu, The Art of War.


"Therefore one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful. Seizing the enemy without fighting is the most skillful."
-Sun Tsu, The Art of war.


"Wisdom is the principle thing, therefore get wisdom, and in all your getting, get understanding."
-Proverbs 4:7


I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain
-from Dune, the science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert.


"With great power, there must also come, great responsibility."
-Stan Lee, Marvel Comics.



“And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the universe, it's being fought, all through the cosmos, and my, but it's a grand and exciting battle.
I know it's hard for you to understand about size, how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy.
You think about that, and maybe it won't seem strange to you that some of our very best fighters have come right from your own planet, and it's a little planet, dears, out on the edge of a little galaxy.
You can be proud that it's done so well."

"Who have our fighters been? Calvin asked.

"Oh, you must know them, dear," Mrs. Whatsit said.

Mrs. Who's spectacles shone out at them triumphantly. "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."

"Jesus!" Charles Wallace said. "Why of course, Jesus!"

"Of course!" Mrs. Whatsit said. "Go on, Charles, love. There were others. All your great artists. They've been lights for us to see by.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time



"People don't want to hear the truth, they want a lie they can live with."
-Samuel Wilson Sr.


"Great minds, think for themselves."
-unknown.

  • "Be formless... shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot; it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend..."
  • "All kind of knowledge, eventually becomes self knowledge"
  • "Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it."[61]
  • "Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there."[62]
  • "A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."
  • "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."
  • "It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."
-Bruce Lee.


"I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.
It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God."
—Albert Einstein.


"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
-Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence.


  • 1. "TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation."
  • 2. "SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation."
  • 3. "ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time."
  • 4. "RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve."
  • 5. "FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing."
  • 6. "INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions."
  • 7. "SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly."
  • 8. "JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty."
  • 9. "MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve."
  • 10. "CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation."
  • 11. "TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable."
  • 12. "CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation."
  • 13. "HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates."
-Benjamin Franklin, Thirteen Virtues.


"There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:
  • (1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;
  • (2) cowardice, which leads to capture;
  • (3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;
  • (4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame;
  • (5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.
These are the five besetting sins of a general, ruinous to the conduct of war.
When an army is overthrown and its leader slain,
the cause will surely be found among these five
dangerous faults. Let them be a subject of meditation."
- Sun Tsu, The Art of War


"Each One, Teach One"
-Known African Proverb. The original author is unknown.


"I believe, that God wants to put each of us,
back into the driver's seat of our own lives. It's your life, God gave it to you as a gift.
He just wants to be your navigator.
If you think about it, Why would you want to just let life happen to you?
In every great story, be it historic fact, or fiction,
The most compelling characters are the ones who take charge of their lives, their destiny,
and ultimately their future.
I think a lot of people are waiting for life to happen to them,
and hoping that whatever happens, is something positive. The problem with this is,
living this way, isn't living, it's just existing. Rocks exist, we were meant to live."
-Tygg


Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
- Desiderata, by American writer Max Ehrmann


I have heard people say that "Everybody wants to be accepted".
However, this is not true. The truth is, everybody wants to be accepted for who they are.
-Tygg


"Be excellent to each other..."
-Bill and Ted's excellent adventure.


"A person convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still."
-Authur Wilson Jr.



“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check,
but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk
that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."
-Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the rings



“I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned
is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time



"Demanding of another that he earns your respect is, in of itself, an act of arrogance,
a way of self-elevation, implying by its very nature that your respect is worth earning."
"Respect is one of the most basic needs of reasoning creatures, particularly among men.
An insult is just that because it is an assault upon respect, upon esteem, and upon that
most dangerous of qualities: pride. So when I meet people now,
they do not have to earn my respect."
-Drizzt Do'urden, Icewind Dale Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore



“One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws.
Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.



“Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve.
You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.
You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.



“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake.
Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.



Stay good.